suggestions for ground up household

[mk01]

(29th Aug, 2013 07:56 AM)rbthompsonv Wrote:  Step 1: What is the best setup for hosting my Media?
I have 2 2tb HDDs for holding the videos... what is the best platform/OS to host that media on? I do not use the host for ANYTHING other than holding those files... Should I stick with the mini-PC that the hard drives are on now and continue having them hosted from a Windows based m

I'm sure 100% everybody sooner or later ends up with a setup like you started you think about.

Buy a better NAS or small quiet mATX box for 6 drives put any linux there. Create one (reduntant) disk pool from it (with BTRFS or ZFS) , put MYSQL there as well and start using the RPI as thin clients as media streamers connected to TVs or anything. You can even s=host there the common settings files or better whole ROOTFS for RPIs. And you will be happy for years with capacity, data integrity and without headaches of corrupted SD cards etc. Even if you have no idea now how it all works, in two s month you will learn and you are fine.

mk

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I have only one RPI, but two ATV2, then three MACs - with XBMC on it sharing the same again (settings, DB, media files).